Car-roof.



S. HERBERT.

CAR ROOF.

APPLICATION FILED 1111111.11', 1911.

Pateted June 29, 1915.

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CAR Roof. APPLICATION FILED MAR.4H| 1 911.

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A tion, reference being" had therein to the ac` @Amm HERBERT, 0F BETRT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNR yT0 HUTCHINS CAR MGFING "-GDFIJPANY, @E BETRIT, IllCHIGAN, A CGRPOIRATON 0F MIGHIGAN.

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To all whom, it may concern.'

`Be itknown that I, SAMUEL HERBERT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing'. at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful' Improvements in Car- Roofs, of which the following is a specificacoxn anying drawings.

The invention relates to car roofs and more particularly to that type in which the spaces between the carlines are covered by metallic roofing sheets, forming not only a Water-proofing, ni'eans-but also the loadsustaining members. With such constructions it is essential to securely fasten the plates at the eaves, and itis usual to accomplish this by bolts, nails or clips engaging the depending flanges lat the eaves and passing through the fascia sheathing and into or through the side plate ot the car. Such a construction forms an eective securing means, but it has been found in 'use that rain water Will occasionally pass through the aperture for the bolt or nail and find access to the interior of the car. lt is not necessary thatthe Water should pass through the plate,but merely to pass through the fascia and sheathing to the line of the inner face of the siding, Where it will drop down and enter the interior of the `vation thereof; and Fig. 3 is a section on line --m ot' Fig. l. Y

A is the side plate B the siding and C is fascia overlapping the upper ends of the siding. f

-D is a metallic rooting plate having a downwardly extending flange. E overlapping the fascia, and F is the carline cap which is provided with' a similar downwardly projecting eaves flange F.

sheets is attached to the fascia Without pe etrating to the interior of the car, and as shown, a series of bolts H are arranged to pass through the fascia'withth'eir heads engagin g recesses H in its inner face. These bolts extend outward and engage the depending eaves flanges E of the roofing sheets which are secured thereto by nuts H2. The

vflanges E may if desired, be spaced from the fascia by thimbles H3, but whenthe ends are secured the flange is firmly anchored from disengagement. Inasmuch as the bolts H do not pass farther -than the inner face of the fascia, which is outside of the line of the siding,A it is evident that any water passing through the bolt aperture cannot penetrate into thecar but will merelyndrop through the clearance space between the fascia and siding'.l It is however, necessary to firmly anchor the fascia to the plate, which is preferably accomplished by a sec-A ond series of bolts I which pass through the alined apertures in the. fascia, filler strip G and plate. .These securing bolts I are eliectually weather Uuarded by the depending llanges E which are imperforate in the portions vcovering said bolts, and thus .no

resent-ea .rane ae,- reis.

opportunity is atforded for the penetration of moisture 'to the interior ofvthecar.

To secure the metallic carlines'in position without forming any bolt holes or openings to -the outsi'deof the car, theyv may be speinner side of the plate." These brackets are 'securedl vertical bolts M passing through the plate and whichl are protected by the.

- cured by brackets K engagingthe top and bolts engage recessesin the outer face of s trs G. g hat I claim as my invention is:

1.. In a ear, the' combinationJ with the'pl'ate' and when secured in position 'are v a-Lfegtively 4Weather guarded by the .filler Athe 'Y plate' and siding, of a fascia having its outer face fontgide the plane of the outer face of Said siding, a filler strip between said fasciav and tate, a roofing sheetl having a de end- 10ving, ange, securingpmeans for said ange.-

-passing through said flange and fasciav only,

and weather guardedl securing means for said .fascia passing therethrough*l and through said filler strip into the plate.

v'p1ate,sidin and fascia, of a filler strip of greater thie ess than the siding positioned Copies of this' pate-'nt:maybev obtained for siding, an inwardly extending bolt 2., Ina car, the combination with the between the 'fascia and plate vvith its `outer face outside the line of the outer face of the assing through alinedapertures in said fascla'! 511er i strip and plate, a rooing sheet havlng'a downturned flange at the eaves weather guarding Ysaid bolt,v and an outwardly extending bolt out ofalinement with the first SAMUEL HERBERT.

Witnesses: Y

JAMES P. BARRY, W. J BELKNAP.y A

'v" cent'each, by addressing the Commissioner o! .'Patsnts', Washingtomn 6J. 

